Unit 2

Question 1

mania
Latin: mania

Answer 1

madness

Question 2

dipsomaniac

Answer 2

a person with an extreme and uncontrollable desire for alcohol

Question 3

psych
Greek: psyche

Answer 3

breath, life, soul

Question 4

cept
Examples: reception, intercept, perception, susceptible

Answer 4

from the Latin verb meaning “take, seize”

Question 5

fin
Examples: confine, definitive, finite, infinitesimal

Answer 5

From the Latin for end or boundary

Question 6

ject
Latin: jacere
Examples: interject, conjecture, projection, trajectory

Answer 6

to throw or hurl

Question 7

tract
Latin: trahere (v)
Examples: traction, retract, protracted

Answer 7

To drag or draw

Question 8

intractable

Answer 8

Not easily handled, led, taught, or controlled

Question 9

duc/duct
Latin: ducere
duke, conducive, deduction, induce(persuade, influence or bring about)

Answer 9

To lead

Question 10

sequ
Latin: sequi
examples: sequel, sequential, subsequent, consequential

Answer 10

To follow

Question 11

non sequitur
Rattled by the question, his mind went blank, and he blurted out a non sequitur that fetched a few laughs from the audience.

Answer 11

A statement that doesn’t follow logically from anything previously said

Question 12

Apollonian

Answer 12

Harmonious, ordered, rational, calm

Question 13

bacchanalian

Answer 13

Frenzied, orgiastic

Question 14

delphic

Answer 14

unclear, ambiguous, or confusing

Question 15

Dionysian

Answer 15

frenzied, delirious